Generally thought by most therapists to be the best portrayal of therapy. Judd Hirsch plays the always available therapist to teenage Timothy Hutton, suffering from survivors' guilt after the boating death of his brother.

Not technically a movie, but about a hundred of them. Dr. Jennifer Melfi takes as her patient the mob leader Tony Soprano. Sparks fly but the relationship remains professional. Fairly accurate portrayal of psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Psychiatric ward as cold, authoritarian institution with Jack Nicholson as rebellious patient/hero.

The first dramatic portrayal of multiple personality disorder with Lee J. Cobb as the shrink and Joanne Woodward as the patient.

Foolishly portrayed shrink diagnoses young Harold with a serious Oepipus Complex when he wants to marry the much older Maude with the Oedipus Complex.

This is the original John Waters Hairspray in which the therapist/behaviorist shocks his patients with a cattleprod.

Barbra Streisand is the therapist who falls in love with her patient while he is recalling traumatic memories. Boundary problems are everywhere in this movie.

Woody Allen as an ant on the couch being shrunk by another ant...brief scene.

60's film about two teenagers drawn to each other while in a mental institution. Sensitive.

1974: housewife is committed to mental institution by husband. Gena Rowlands plays a woman becoming psychotic like no one else can.